Professional summary

Simon Dadson is Hydro-JULES Programme Leader at UKCEH and Professor of Hydrology at the University of Oxford. Simon has published widely in the fields of climate change, hydrology and Earth surface processes, in leading scientific journals such as Nature, Science, Geophysical Research Letters, Proceedings of the Royal Society, and Water Resources Research. Simon holds an MA from the University of Oxford, an MSc from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His research has been featured in the print and broadcast media, including in The Times and on BBC Radio 4.

Selected publications

Gebrechorkos Solomon H. et al. , (2023), Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981-2022. Earth System Science Data Discussions, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-276

Buechel Marcus et al. , (2022), Hydrological impact of widespread afforestation in Great Britain using a large ensemble of modelled scenarios. Communications Earth & Environment, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00334-0

Lees Thomas et al. , (2021), Benchmarking data-driven rainfall–runoff models in Great Britain: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM)-based models with four lumped conceptual models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25, 5517-5534, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5517-2021

Lees Thomas et al. , (2022), Hydrological concept formation inside long short-term memory (LSTM) networks. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26, 3079-3101, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3079-2022

Slater Louise J. et al. , (2021), Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25, 3897-3935, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3897-2021

Blyth Eleanor M. et al. , (2021), Advances in land surface modelling. Current Climate Change Reports, 7, 45-71, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40641-021-00171-5

Peng Jian et al. , (2021), A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications – confronting product characteristics with user requirements. Remote Sensing of Environment, 252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112162

Gleeson Tom et al. , (2020), The water planetary boundary: interrogation and revision. One Earth, 2, 223-234, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590332220300907

Beven Keith et al. , (2020), Developing observational methods to drive future hydrological science: can we make a start as a community?. Hydrological Processes, 34, 868-873, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13622